Theology in America : Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War /
Holifield, E. Brooks,
Theology in America : Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War / E. Brooks Holifield. - 1 online resource (ix, 617 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-595) and index.
The New England Calvinists -- Rationalism resisted -- Nature, the supernatural, and virtue -- Jonathan Edwards -- Fragmentation in New England -- The deists -- Evidential Christianity -- Unitarian virtue -- Universal salvation -- Episcopal theology and tradition -- Methodist perfection -- The Baptists and Calvinist diversity -- Restoration -- Roots of black theology -- The immediacy of revelation -- Calvinism revised -- "True Calvinism" defended -- Lutherans : reason, revival, and confession -- Catholics : reason and the Church -- The transcendentalists : intuition -- Horace Bushnell : Christian comprehensiveness -- The Mercersburg theology : communal reason -- Orestes Brownson and Isaac Hecker : transcendental Catholicism -- The dilemma of slavery.
This volume is a comprehensive survey of early American Christian theology which encompasses scores of American theological traditions, schools of thought, and thinkers. Holifield examines mainstream Protestant and Catholic traditions as well as those of more marginal groups. He looks closely at the intricacies of American theology from 1636 to 1865 and considers the social and institutional settings for religious thought during this period. The book explores a range of themes, including the strand of Christian thought that sought to demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity, the place of American theology within the larger European setting, the social location of theology in early America, and the special importance of the Calvinist traditions in the development of American theology. Broad in scope and deep in its insights, this book acquaints us with the full chorus of voices that contributed to theological conversation in America's early years.
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Theology, Doctrinal--History.--United States
Théologie dogmatique--Histoire.--États-Unis
11.59 church history, history of doctrine: other.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Systematic.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--General.
Theology, Doctrinal
Theologie
Systematische theologie.
United States
USA
History
BT30.U6 / H65 2003eb
230/.0973
Theology in America : Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War / E. Brooks Holifield. - 1 online resource (ix, 617 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-595) and index.
The New England Calvinists -- Rationalism resisted -- Nature, the supernatural, and virtue -- Jonathan Edwards -- Fragmentation in New England -- The deists -- Evidential Christianity -- Unitarian virtue -- Universal salvation -- Episcopal theology and tradition -- Methodist perfection -- The Baptists and Calvinist diversity -- Restoration -- Roots of black theology -- The immediacy of revelation -- Calvinism revised -- "True Calvinism" defended -- Lutherans : reason, revival, and confession -- Catholics : reason and the Church -- The transcendentalists : intuition -- Horace Bushnell : Christian comprehensiveness -- The Mercersburg theology : communal reason -- Orestes Brownson and Isaac Hecker : transcendental Catholicism -- The dilemma of slavery.
This volume is a comprehensive survey of early American Christian theology which encompasses scores of American theological traditions, schools of thought, and thinkers. Holifield examines mainstream Protestant and Catholic traditions as well as those of more marginal groups. He looks closely at the intricacies of American theology from 1636 to 1865 and considers the social and institutional settings for religious thought during this period. The book explores a range of themes, including the strand of Christian thought that sought to demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity, the place of American theology within the larger European setting, the social location of theology in early America, and the special importance of the Calvinist traditions in the development of American theology. Broad in scope and deep in its insights, this book acquaints us with the full chorus of voices that contributed to theological conversation in America's early years.
9780300129731 0300129734 1281730505 9781281730503 0300095740 9780300095746
9780300095746
22573/ctt1134fz JSTOR 27C5D108-61B3-4E02-B34B-F534FE3C3871 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Theology, Doctrinal--History.--United States
Théologie dogmatique--Histoire.--États-Unis
11.59 church history, history of doctrine: other.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Systematic.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--General.
Theology, Doctrinal
Theologie
Systematische theologie.
United States
USA
History
BT30.U6 / H65 2003eb
230/.0973